[WikiEN-l] Press coverage listing the HD-DVD key

[Todd Allen]

That's not responsibility. As reluctant as I am to use the word,
that's caving to censorship. I'm 100% for curbing any attempts to spam
the thing all over the place. We don't tolerate spamming campaigns,
never have, never should. At the same time, the NYT, Wired, and the
like are hardly "the mob". They're reliable sources that we cite
across hundreds or probably thousands of articles. And "reliable
sources are in control" is, if not stated that way specifically, fully
in keeping with our core principles. The real mob (or, in this case,
thug) here is the industry organization trying to prohibit mention of
a number. The message we send if we cave is "Thugs are in control, if
they're potentially big and nasty enough."

On 5/4/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Todd Allen [mailto:toddmallen at gmail.com]
> >Sent: Friday, May 4, 2007 06:42 AM
> >To: 'English Wikipedia'
> >Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Press coverage listing the HD-DVD key
> >
> >Because, if everyone else in the world is publishing it and linking to
> >it, and we're running around worrying that the sky will fall if anyone
> >breathes a mention of the Forbidden Number, we're going to look
> >ridiculous. And rightly so, that -is- ridiculous.
>
> We're going to look responsible. Most important, we're going to look like the mob is not in control.
>
> Fred
>
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